Hearths and fireplaces
Mountain residence hearth, Nederland
Nederland, CO · 2024
Stacked fieldstone chimney running floor to peak in a timber-beamed living room, with a cast-iron firebox and a reclaimed-timber mantel shelf.
Custom stone and tile — Denver
One project at a time.
Interior hearths, restoration of older work, and small-scale exterior masonry. Every stone hand-selected at the quarry. Every project finished before we start the next.
What we do
Three kinds of work.
01
Hearths and fireplaces
Interior stone and tile work centered on the fireplace. Limestone, sandstone, flagstone, reclaimed. Built in place, cut to the room.
02
Restoration
Early-century Denver stonework that needs intervention rather than replacement. Pointing, repair, re-dressing, and the occasional careful rebuild.
03
Exterior sculptural
Small-scale architectural and sculptural work — columns, garden walls, carved feature pieces. Pieces that read as commissioned, not catalog.
How we work
Most stone shops in Denver run three jobs in parallel. We run one. If we are on your house in October, we are not on two others. A single Ardent crew works a single site until the work is done.
Our intake list is a queue, not a calendar. You will know where you sit on it. You will know who is carrying your stone into the house and who is still carrying it when the job is finished.
Finish is the only acceptable end state.
Selected work
A partial record.
We do not photograph every project. The ones below are the ones worth showing. There is more in the full portfolio.
Restoration
Inscribed cornerstone medallion, Baker
Denver, CO · 2024
Conservation of a weathered carved medallion set into an 1890s field-stone wall. Face cleaned and re-dressed in place; surrounding courses re-pointed in matched lime mortar.
Exterior sculptural
Sandstone chimney rebuild, LoHi
Denver, CO · 2024
Full rebuild of a failed sandstone chimney on an Arts-and-Crafts residence, sourced from a matching Colorado quarry.
The material
Every stone hand-picked at the source.
Every piece of stone that goes into an Ardent project is hand-picked off the stack, not ordered by the pallet. The limestone from Manitou. The flagstone from the quarries west of Golden. The reclaimed sandstone we pull from teardowns before it gets trucked to the landfill.
None of it is interchangeable. None of it gets chosen from a photograph. A stone for a hearth is picked in person, often with the client, and very occasionally rejected for reasons that take a sentence to explain and a lifetime to learn.
Start a conversation
If you have a piece of stone in mind, we should talk.
A site visit, usually within two weeks. No follow-up if it is not a fit.